Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcer: "The first thing the quintuplets do upon rising with a cheery smile is to--(pause; here the audience should laugh, not altogether but separate, raucous laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...
...Harvard to take such a moment to administer its "formal greeting", a smile on its lips, and to refuse a delegate, a dagger in its heart, is not only untimely; it is downright discourteous. If "the freedom and fraternity of the scholarly world" holds "the surest hope" for "our civilization", why not deal directly and put away childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit...
...arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
...painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene in The Great Ziegfeld-she repeats in Babes In Arms. Not only because of her physical appearance but because of her propensity for rolling her eyes and giving the customers a continuous big square-mouthed smile, Miss Green is constantly, if unintentionally, in the throes of an imitation of Fanny Brice. Nevertheless, she is the spark plug of Babes In Arms. She dances a little, sings a lot: most charmingly a song called My Funny Valentine, most stridently a song called The Lady Is A Tramp...
Alice Faye, meanwhile, is Jack's blond angel who also warbles on occasion. The figure and the smile are still there. Patsy Kelly, as Winchell's girl Friday, continues to "knock 'em cold". Nod Sparks, judging from his performance in this picture, will continue to be seen on the screen for a long time, if he doesn't swallow his cigar first...